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Regeneration Our community involvement in this area aims to: – Encourage enterprise – Find sustainable solutions to alleviate disadvantage – Support our communities and the causes that matter to our employees Discovering ways of tackling social and economic deprivation in our communities is a major challenge.We aim to take action where we see disadvantage,working in partnership with specialist agencies and organisations to address issues as wide ranging as homelessness,unemployment, underachievement and crime. Habitat for Humanity Employees in Indianapolis take part in Habitat for Humanity every year to build a house for a low-income family. Habitat for Humanity is an innovative employee-volunteering scheme to build homes for low-income families and provide them with interest-free mortgages. The US-based scheme has drawn extraordinary levels of support from our employees in Indianapolis and is now firmly entrenched as part of the company’s civil involvement programme in the state. Since 1997 they have built six houses. In one project,175 employees built a five-bedroom house for a local family in just eight working days – setting a record in 2002 from the usual build time of two weeks. Typically beginning with an empty site,Rolls-Royce volunteers are closely supervised by a professional builder who provides the detailed specifications.Rolls-Royce is a leading sponsor of materials and labour and employees can volunteer their time in working hours to help. One Rolls-Royce volunteer said: ‘I’ve learnt that good teamwork and a sense of humour are qualities you need in abundance when faced with building a house! Ultimately it’s the smiles on the families’faces when they see their home completed that keeps us coming back.’ Ação Comunitária provides practical IT courses for young people living in the Favellas in Rio de Janeiro. Rolls-Royce Brazil In Brazil we have been working with Ação Comunitária,a charity providing practical education courses for young people living in the Favelas in Rio de Janeiro.Our investment has supported 80 courses in computer skills to 1200 students,since 1999. Support for SARS Relief Young people receive their qualification in computer skills via Ação Comunitária. Rolls-Royce in China donated RMB 50,000 (equivalent to £4,000) to the country’s Red Cross Society during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003. The funds were used to buy equipment to help bring relief to those people in outlying regions with limited access to medical support. 22 Rolls-Royce in the Community
Payroll giving Payroll giving benefits everyone. Charities receive a regular income and employees can make easy,taxefficient donations.Payroll giving has really taken off at Rolls-Royce, allowing our employees to donate to the charity of their choice.We run schemes in North America and in the UK,both of which have seen impressive take-up rates. In North America – we’ve teamed up with United Way in the US and United Way Centraide in Canada. More than 40 per cent of employees participated in this payroll giving scheme in 2003,donating over US$475,000 to causes they care about.Following the tragic events of September 11,2001,the charity launched a disaster relief fund to help victims and families affected by the terrorist attacks and our employees started their own successful campaign of support.The company matched all of the funds raised by many different employee activities. 23 Rolls-Royce in the Community In the UK – 20 per cent of the UK workforce donated over £320,000 to 250 charities in 2003.Our scheme, which is personally championed by Sir John Rose,has the third highest take-up by employees in the UK and their contribution was highlighted in 2003 as an example of best practice in the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Giving Campaign.We work with external broker Sharing the Caring and distribution agency South West Charitable Giving to publicise the scheme,and handle the donations.All the administration costs are funded by Rolls-Royce and payroll giving is a feature of all new employees’induction. Children’s charity Hope for Children has received a steady stream of income from our employees through payroll giving.This is essential to develop and run small projects in 20 countries around the world. (Image supplied courtesy of Hope for Children) ‘Our employees want to give, and payroll giving is the easiest, most tax efficient way to support the causes they care about.’ Helen Bishop,Head of Community Relations,Rolls-Royce. Help the Hospices has received 298 donations from Rolls-Royce employees to date.David Burland, Director of Fundraising says ‘Payroll Giving is vital as it provides a regular, dependable source of income that enables us to plan effectively and support hospices throughout the UK.’ (Image supplied courtesy of Help the Hospices)
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